The Somersetshire Coal Canal joins the Kennet & Avon
Canal on the West side of Dundas Aqueduct.

On the wharfside (on the right of this picture) is a
crane and a supply of stone blocks of various weights which
were used to load down a new boat before it entered the
canal. The depth it settled in the water for each weight was
recorded, then when it returned with a cargo, the weight of
the cargo could be determined by 'gauging' (measuring the
amount by which the boat had settled in the water). Tolls
were charge by cargo weight and distance carried.

A close-up view showing one of the entrance lock gates just
visible under the bridge

At the entrance to the SCC is a complex lock arrangement
which was installed to prevent either canal from taking its
water from the other and to protect each one from draining
if the other burst its banks.

The present day entrance showing the lock walls and the
moorings beyond

The first quarter mile of the SCC is in water and is
being used as boat moorings.

The Visitors' Centre and Moorings at Brassknocker
Basin

This leads to the visitors' centre at Brassknocker Basin
where the canal currently termintes in a boat repair
workshop built underneath the road bridge of the A36.

From the A36 onwards, the course of the canal has been
cut-into by the Limpley Stoke to Camerton Railway, but
traces of it can still be see, mainly on the North side of
the track leading to Monkton Combe Mill.